Live life like a gun-toting grandma

Prakashi Tomar.  Screen sot from Hindustan Times video.

Prakashi Tomar. Screen sot from Hindustan Times video.

Caught in the ferocious grip of the ‘what the fuck am I doing with my life’ beast, I was beginning to feel overcome with despair and depression, unable to go on, unable to control my increasing need for melodrama and hyperbole, basically feeling, for want of a better (more dramatic) word, like a piece of shite.

It would seem that no matter what my circumstance or situation, good or bad, employed or jobless, deadbeat or superstar, this rather gross state of mind – felt particularly acutely in the early twenties – could come and bite me in the arse at any time, and on this occasion the little rascal had sunk his teeth in good. Continue reading

Boats & Hoes

RYA Suzuki Dinghy Show

RYA Suzuki Dinghy Show

Last weekend I went to the Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Suzuki Dinghy Show.

Why, you ask?

Well, I’m not entirely sure.

As a kid we used to spend many a summer holiday on the Norfolk Broads mucking around on our friends’ boats (is the most middle-class sentence I’ve ever written).  And back in the life crisis mental breakdown of 2013, I decided to reignite my love for the water (is the second most middle-class sentence I’ve ever written) and do a RYA sailing course.

But this is 2015 and I’ve got the need for speed. Continue reading